Cotopaxi

Scene up there.

So that is the Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador.

which sits at 19,000 feet.

So for reference, if we take out Alaska, because Alaska doesn't really count, continental U.S., highest point 15,000.

That sounds about right.

Hey, he's a triplet, too.

Walker King, Episcopal grad, Duval till we die at the top of Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador, 19,000 feet up.

Hey, enjoy the rest of the Jag season.

It's like, oh, I'm out of shape, so it's going to happen to me.

I mean, we climbed Cotopaxi in Ecuador, me and a group of friends and coworkers.

And the most in shape guy, the most in shape guy who did the most training for that expedition got, he got HAPE, high altitude pulmonary edema.

So that's in your lungs.

Arid hills and dreary plains, covered with plutonic rocks and pumice dust, tell us we are approaching the most terrible volcano on the earth.

Crossing the sources of the Pastaza, we entered Latacunga, situated on a beautiful plain at the foot of Cotopaxi, 700 feet higher than Ambato.

Footnote.

This is shortened in parlance to Tacunga.

In 1756, the Jesuit church was thrown down, though its walls were five feet thick.

The houses are of one story, are built of pumice, widely different from the palaces and temples which are said to have stood here in the palmy days of the Incas.

Cotopaxi stands threateningly near, and its rumbling thunder is the source of constant alarm.

From Latacunga to Quito, there is a very fine carriage road, the result of one man's administration, Señor G. García Moreno.

Arid hills and dreary plains, covered with plutonic rocks and pumice dust, tell us we are approaching the most terrible volcano on the earth.

Crossing the sources of the Pastaza, we entered Latacunga, situated on a beautiful plain at the foot of Cotopaxi, seven hundred feet higher than Ambato.

Footnote.

This is shortened in parlance to Tacunga.

In 1756 the Jesuit church was thrown down, though its walls were five feet thick.

The houses are of one story, are built of pumice, widely different from the palaces and temples which are said to have stood here in the palmy days of the Incas.

Cotopaxi stands threateningly near, and its rumbling thunder is the source of constant alarm.

From Latacunga to Quito there is a very fine carriage road, the result of one man's administration, Señor G. García Moreno.

Arid hills and dreary plains, covered with plutonic rocks and pumice dust, tell us we are approaching the most terrible volcano on the earth.

Crossing the sources of the Pastaza, we entered Latacunga, situated on a beautiful plain at the foot of Cotopaxi, 700 feet higher than Ambato.

Footnote.

This is shortened in parlance to Tacunga.

In 1756, the Jesuit church was thrown down, though its walls were five feet thick.

The houses are of one story, are built of pumice, widely different from the palaces and temples which are said to have stood here in the palmy days of the Incas.

Cotopaxi stands threateningly near, and its rumbling thunder is the source of constant alarm.

From Latacunga to Quito, there is a very fine carriage road, the result of one man's administration, Señor G. García Moreno.